onathan Evison, author of the New York Times bestseller West of Here, has crafted a story that is as grounded in the stark reality of its charactersβ struggles as it is filled with the kind of hopeful joy that enables them to make it from one day to the next. A novel of the heart, a novel of unlikely heroes in a grand American landscape, it is, most of all, a profound look into what it takes to truly care for one another. Bursting with energy and filled with moments of absolute beauty, this big-hearted and inspired novel ponders lifeβs terrible surprises as well as the heartβs uncanny capacity to mend.